Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann, Angus Deaton, Paul Duane, Eduardo Engel, Stanley Fischer, ...
Using economic rates of return from World Bank-funded investments, we investigate how country characteristics and policies that influence aggregate performance affect investment productivity....
Isham, Jonathan, Woolcock, Michael, Pritchett, Lant, Busby, Gwen
Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop-based economies experienced a substantial deceleration in growth following the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s. This article illustrates...
Isham, Jonathan, Woolcock, Michael, Pritchett, Lant, Busby, Gwen
Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop–based economies experienced a substantial deceleration in growth following the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s. This article illustrates...
A model of technology adoption with social capital /--by Jonathan T. Isham, Jr. (2000)
Thesis research directed by Dept. of Economics.
Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Government Projects (1997)
Isham, Jonathan, Kaufmann, Daniel, Pritchett, Lant H.
This article uses a cross-national data set on the performance of government investment projects financed by the World Bank to examine the link between government efficacy and governance. It...
Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data (1995)
Isham, Jonathan, Narayan, Deepa, Pritchett, Lant
Data from 121 diverse rural water projects provide strong statistical findings that increasing beneficiary participation directly causes better project outcomes. Three possible econometric objections...
Social Capital and Consumption among Agricultural Households
This paper develops a life cycle model for agricultural households in which social capital is a fixed input into household production. The intertemporal solutions of the model yield four results that...
Killington Mountain Resort: A Case Study of 'Green' Expansion in Vermont
Jonathan Isham, Jeff Polubinski
environmental law, stakeholder participation, institutions
Mike Garn, Jonathan Isham, Satu Kahkonen
Is public or private sector provision of water more likely to succeed in urban areas of Cambodia? Using quantitative and qualitative data from a range of surveys and technical assessments, this paper...
Using data from community-based water services in Sri Lanka and India, this paper shows first that: (a) improved household health and reduced water collection times are associated with better service...
The Effect of Social Capital on Fertilizer Adoption: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Do the characterisitics of local social structures affect fertilizer adoption among rural households? This paper extends the model of technology adoption of Feder and Slade (1984) to incorporate...
Overcoming Information Asymmetries in Low-Income Lending: Lessons from the 'Working Wheels' Program
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham, Jessica Wasilewski
Without access to reliable transportation, the welfare-to-work transition for low-income households is nearly impossible, yet very little is known about the effectiveness of targeted loan programs...
Overcoming Information Asymmetries in Low-Income Lending: Lessons from the "Working Wheels" Program
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham, Jessica Wasilewski
This study analyzes the role of relationship lending in the automobile credit market among a population generally perceived to be high risk - and thereby 'unlendable'. Using a unique dataset from the...
Jane Kolodinsky, Garret Kimberly, Jonathan Isham
We use the household production framework to theoretically connect sociability and purposive incentives for volunteering and two forms of social capital: social connections and civic capacity. Then,...
Jane Kolodinsky, Garret Kimberly, Jonathan Isham
As membership in traditional civic organizations declines in the United States (Putnam, 2000), could volunteering for nonprofit organizations be an alternative source of social capital formation? We...
The Changing Composition and Influence of Land-Based Groups: Evidence from Two Counties in Vermont
Andrew Savage, Jonathan Isham, Christopher McGrory Klyza
civic engagement, social capital, environmental policy
The Greening of Social Capital: An Examination of Land-Based Groups in Two Vermont Counties
Andrew Savage, Christopher McGrory Klyza, Jonathan Isham
By undertaking a census of all agricultural, outdoor recreational, and environmental groups (land-based groups) in two adjacent counties in Vermont, we demonstrate the dramatic increase of local...
Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett, Gwen Busby
Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop-based economies experienced a substantial deceleration of growth since the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s. Rodrik (1999) has demonstrated...
Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, Gwen Busby, Jonathan Isham
Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop-based economies experienced a substantial deceleration of growth since the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s. Rodrik (1999) has demonstrated...
Christopher McGrory Klyza, Andrew Savage, Jonathan Isham
Many scholars have documented the important role of national environmental groups in affecting environmental policies in the United States. The role of local environmental groups, however, has not...
Water Demand and the Welfare Effects of Connection: Empirical Evidence from Cambodia
Marcello Basani, Barry Reilly, Jonathan Isham
Using cross-sectional household-level data from seven provincial Cambodian towns, we estimate a water demand equation for households connected to the network, and provide an empirical measurement of...
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham, Ryan Petersen, Paul Sommers
We use actual loan applications submitted to a community development credit union (CDCU) and a traditional community bank to examine the role of relationship lending in the automobile loan market. We...
Christopher McGrory Klyza, Andrew Savage, Jonathan Isham
Scholars who have studied local environmental groups and their effects in the United States have tended to agree about three related, stylized facts: that such groups are widespread, that they are...
Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett, Gwen Busby
Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop--based economies experienced a substantial deceleration in growth following the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s. This article illustrates...
The forgotten rationale for policy reform : the productivity of investment projects
Isham, Jonathan, Kaufmann,Daniel
Using economic rates of return from more than 1,200 public and private sector projects implemented in 61 developing countries, the authors analyze determinants of investment productivity. Results...
Governance and returns on investment : an empirical investigation
Isham, Jonathan, Kaufmann, Daniel, Pritchett, Lant
Using data from the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department, the authors examine the link between the performance of Bank-financed projects and various indicators of country governance. They...
Does participation improve project performance : establishing causality with subjective data
Isham, Jonathan, Narayan, Deepa, Pritchett, Lant
Development practitioners are coming to a consensus that participation by the intended beneficiaries improves project performance. But is there convincing evidence that this is true? Skeptics have...
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham, Ryan Petersen, Paul M. Sommers
This article examines the role of relationship lending in the automobile loan market at a community development credit union (CDCU) and at a traditional community bank. Copyright (c) 2007...
The Forgotten Rationale For Policy Reform: The Productivity Of Investment Projects
Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann
Using economic rates of return from World Bank-funded investments, we investigate how country characteristics and policies that influence aggregate performance affect investment productivity....
Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Government Projects.
Isham, Jonathan, Kaufmann, Daniel, Pritchett, Lant H
This article uses a cross-national data set on the performance of government investment projects financed by the World Bank to examine the link between government efficacy and governance. It...
Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data.
Isham, Jonathan, Narayan, Deepa, Pritchett, Lant
Data from 121 diverse rural water projects provide strong statistical findings that increasing beneficiary participation directly causes better project outcomes. Three possible econometric objections...
The Effect of Social Capital on Fertiliser Adoption: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Do the characteristics of local social structures affect fertiliser adoption among rural households? This paper extends the model of technology adoption of Feder and Slade (1984) to incorporate...
Overcoming Information Asymmetries in Low-Income Lending: Lessons from the “Working Wheels” Program
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham, Jessica Wasilewski
Without access to transportation, the welfare-to-work transition is nearly impossible, yet little is known about the effectiveness of programs designed to improve credit access. Since 1998, Vermont's...
Basani, Marcello, Isham, Jonathan, Reilly, Barry
Summary Using cross-sectional household-level data from seven provincial towns and one district in Cambodia, we estimate both an access-to-water network equation and a water demand equation. We find...